[FFmpeg-devel] Broken third party software

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:40:35PM +0200, Frans de Boer wrote:
> 
> I found that any svn version after 15241 causes libquicktime and
> cinelerra not to be compiled due to changes in 15270 and later. Probally
> there are more products which can no longer be compiled due to FFmpeg
> changes.
> 
> Yes, I know: ffmpeg is not stable, but since it's around already a long
> time and many projects are using it, they also depend on it.

False, FFmpeg is not unstable.  The libavcodec version number has been
bumped and backwards compatibility broken.  The last time we did this
was almost 3 years ago, so don't come complaining now.

Diego